The Brexit Wind Tunnel
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories. Our man in Budapest, Nick Thorpe, hears how the Brexit vote has created fear and insecurity across eastern Europe. With Leave campaigners saying that Britain has a bright future trading with the rest of the world, Sanjoy Majumder is in Delhi, where Indian businesses and students think they could profit; Lizzie Porter visits the old aiport-turned Olympic site which is now home to thousands of Afghans in Greece; James Jeffrey is fascinated by fasting and marvels at how dock workers in Djibouti just keep carrying on under the baking sun - even during Ramadan; And Steve Rosenberg remembers his favourite Soviet cartoon as he explores Russia's hurt sporting pride.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the edition that was broadcast on Radio 4 on Thursday the 30th of June. |
| 0:08.0 | It's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Today to India where business thinks it might profit from Brexit. |
| 0:16.1 | In Athens we visit the airport where Olympians once strode the corridors, but which is now the |
| 0:21.1 | sight of an Afghan village. |
| 0:23.0 | In Djibouti, the dock workers must keep working under a baking sun, Ramadan or not. |
| 0:30.0 | And when your sporting pride is hurt, who should you blame? |
| 0:33.7 | Why not everyone else? |
| 0:36.5 | The UK's vote to leave the European Union |
| 0:38.8 | has caused shock waves across the whole continent, |
| 0:41.3 | not least in Eastern Europe. |
| 0:43.6 | During the referendum campaign, one of the main arguments from the Leave camp was that |
| 0:48.0 | if Britain left we would have more control of our borders and could limit immigration. |
| 0:52.6 | Most of the EU migrants to Britain are people from Eastern Europe. |
| 0:56.6 | Nick Thorpe, who's been based in Hungary for many years, |
| 0:59.6 | says the moment they joined is still fresh in many people's minds across the region. |
| 1:05.2 | Everyone remembers where they were, the moment the fateful news of the British vote reached them. |
| 1:11.3 | Owanna, a young Romanian photographer, was on a bus in Bucharest. |
| 1:15.8 | It was pretty hot, she told me. |
| 1:17.5 | The air conditioning wasn't working. |
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